I have an essay on poetry and political ethics (an expansion on some ideas presented in an earlier post here) in the first issue of Absent, an online magazine that looks excellent. Now that I finally have time to read through its contents, I’m carefully going through editor Simon DeDeo’s essay “Towards an Anarchist Poetics.” I like it a lot, and plan on posting my thoughts in response here.

My own essay (which is—I think—the magazine’s lone PDF, due to complexities resulting from my sending it in at the last possible minute) has had a couple of nice comments from Kent Johnson and Josh Corey. Thanks, guys.